Ahfrahn Phoenix grew up among the African Hebrew Israelites in the Israeli town of Dimona. He was excluded from the community when he began to talk openly about the fact that he was raped repeatedly by a member of the community as a child.
Directed by Anat Tel.
Three young Jewish settler women live on West Bank hills, surrounded by disowned Palestinians, with constant tension between their femininity and the weapons they carry.
Director: Ayelet Bechar
Johnny believes in the future of Africa. His wife, Therese, doesn’t any more. He dreams of returning home with advanced Western knowledge. When their viewpoints collide, the family’s fate is forever altered.
Ultra-Orthodox women are forbidden to run for Israeli parliament. One woman is determined to change this historic ban. Fighting against her own community with her friends, brings a huge personal price, but Esty Shushan won’t stop until she achieves equal rights for 600,000 women.
Directed by: Anna Somershaf
Three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a cave where they hid as children to escape the Nazis.
Directed by: Tamar Tal Anati
For the first time on television, the camera accompanies six girls who were accepted to one of the most prestigious courses in the IDF: Piloting course
Directed by: Tamar tal Anati
Il y a 70 ans, David Ben Gourion proclamait l’indépendance de l’Etat d’Israël. Le journaliste et documentariste Serge Moati est allé à la rencontre de femmes et d’hommes nés aux alentours de 1948. Ils ont connu les espérances et les désillusions, les avancées et les reculades, les guerres aussi d’un pays au cœur de l’actualité mondiale.
Directed by: Serge Moati
A short film in which my grandmother reads the poem she always keeps in her purse “Le Troisième Age”
ענת גוב, Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller, an artists’ agent, to be the executor of her will.
Arik struggles to accept the humor and serenity with which she faces her upcoming end.
Anat, consciously accepting her nearing end, wishes to leave a spiritual legacy: there can be a happy ending.
Directed by: Tamar Tal Anati
Camcorder footage captures two girls—one Israeli, one American—in corsets and bunny ears, high on coke, backstage at a Tokyo strip club. Yael films Melissa giggling, sobbing, heartbreakingly candid. Seven years later, Yael flies to the United States to find her friend again.
A six-year-old Filipino girl who is blind and was born in Israel is adopted by a loving Filipino worker, Janet, a Philippine foreign worker. Together they try to bridge linguistic and cultural gaps in a country that one of them regards as her homeland, while the other considers it a foreign land.
Directed by: Anat Tel
The film depicts rare documentation of how uranium deals are made on the black market, in the world back yard, in Africa.
Directed by: Shany Haziza
Second graders from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, in the center of Tel Aviv, contend with a stormy school year, of war and nationalistic currirulum.
Directed by: Netta Loevy
Jewish Israeli grandparents are challenged by their grandchild to compose an agreed-upon version of the untold story of a large crystal mirror, taken from the Palestinian village of Zarnuqa during the Nakba – the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the new Israeli state in the 1948 war. An intimate discussion that reflects on the presence of the Nakba in the lives of Jewish Israelis and addresses its silenced remnants, located at the very center of our lives.
Directed by: Danielle Schwartz
A journey to the Jewish community in Mumbai.
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Idan has no choice but to become a martial arts champion, trained by his father in a method developed by his holocaust surviving grandfather. Filmed in the first Israeli mixed martial arts doc film.
Directed by: Itay Livne
22-year-old May Davidovich converted to Islam 4 years ago.May lives between two worlds. She longs for a husband, children and a life within the Arab society but remains close to the family that pays dearly for her choice and fears losing her.
Directed by: Anat Tel
A middle class woman, whose bag including her mobile phone, is stolen, finds herself stranded in a public telephone booth where she discovers within herself a mobility that she had long forgotten.
An observation of the filmmaker’s own daily life and Johnny’s – an immigrant worker from the Ivory Coast, through thier common tool – the camera.
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